Example sentences of "was [adj] i [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How was I to know it would give her a heart attack when it reacted unfavourably with some other medicine she was taking/ I only meant to give her a bit of discomfort . |
| 2 | By the time I was thirteen I already had a 36-inch bust , and during games lessons other girls would snigger , make remarks , and generally treat me like an abnormality . |
| 3 | ‘ When I heard rumours that this version of Swan Lake was pornographic I just wondered why they could n't pick on some other composer . |
| 4 | ‘ And the time when he was ill I hardly remember at all . ’ |
| 5 | Ooh they sometimes used to get books or er they used to get some nice prizes you know , and books and er and that and er and when I was little I once went on stage for a in a skipping competition . |
| 6 | That was all I ever felt for any woman — until I met you . ’ |
| 7 | That was all I ever learned directly from the regiment or from the War Office . |
| 8 | Anyway , why compromise myself when my surgeon himself had assured me that he had ‘ cut out all he could see ’ , and the diet I was already on was all I really needed to stay well ? |
| 9 | When I was older I often left the room . |
| 10 | The first animal she ever made friends with was a pig : ‘ When I was small I always wanted to join a circus with a troupe of six Tamworth pigs . |
| 11 | In that horrible moment when I looked across the room and realized that poor old Eddy was dead I certainly felt something . |
| 12 | I say that was naughty I normally wash them up and I put it back in there |